The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [778]
Lucan, Margaret, Countess of (d. 1814), amateur painter: 753, 943
Lucas, Dr Charles (1713–71), politician and physician; author of The Political Constitutions of Great Britain and Ireland (1751) and An Essay on Waters (1756), the result of his research on European spas; MP for Dublin on return from exile (1761); closely associated with the radical paper The Freeman’s Journal; described by Townshend as ‘the Wilkes of Ireland’: 13, 166, 167
Lucian (c. AD 115– c.200), rhetorician and writer of dialogues, whose Dialogues of the Dead and True History exerted a powerful influence on eighteenth-century English writers such as Swift and Lyttelton: 59, 524, 653 n. a, 781
Lucius Florus, Roman historian: 386
Lucretius Carus, Titus (c.jj– c. 55 B c), philosophical poet and author of De Rerum Natura: 154, 702, 983, 1026 n. 123, 1071 n. 1259
Luke, see Zeck, George and Luke
Lumisden, Andrew (1720–1801), Jacobite politician and antiquary; under-secretary and first clerk of the Treasury to Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender during 1745–6; Secretary of State to the Jacobite court (1764–8); correspondent of J.B., Adam Smith and Hume; author of Remarkson the Antiquities of Rome and its Environs (1797): 478 n.a
Lumm, Sir Francis (c.1732–97): 282 n. a
Luttrell, ColonelHenry Lawes (1743–1821), 2nd Earl of Carhampton; soldier and politician: 318
Lydiat, Thomas (1572–1646), chronologist; chronographer and cosmographer to Henry, Prince of Wales; rector of Alkerton (1612); author of Solis et lunae periodus seu annus magnus (1620); rejected the Gregorian calendar; recalled by S.J. inThe Vanity of Human Wishes (1749): 109 n. b, 264
Lye, Edward (1694–1767), Anglo-Saxon and Gothic scholar; rector of Yardley Hastings (1737); published Etymologicum Anglicanum (1743); fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1750); posthumously published Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico–Latinum (1772) formed the basis of several expanded nineteenth-century works: 269
Lysons, Samuel (1763–1819), antiquary: 991
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, 1st Baron (1709–73), politician and writer; with Pitt the elder, oneofCobham’s Cubs; extensive correspondence with Pope;contribu-torto the journal Common Sense;alord ofthe Treasury (1744); improver of the gardens at Hagley Hall; dedicatee of Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749) and possible source for Squire Allworthy; author of Dialogues of the Dead (1760) and the History of the Life of Henry the Second (1767); S.J. penned his life in 1774: 140, 283, 326, 377, 385, 503, 535, 655, 718, 795, 799
Lyttelton, Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron (1744–79), son of the preceding; libertine and politician; MP for Bewdley (1768); eloquence admired by Horace Walpole; supported the government from the Lords, Playing a subsidiary role afterarakish youth: 928
Lyttelton, William Henry, see Westcote, William Henry Lyttelton, 1st Baron
Macartney, George Macartney, 1st Earl (1737–1806), diplomatist and colonial governor; envoy-extraordinary to Russia (1764); knighted (1764); Chief Secretary in Ireland (1769); Irish Privy Councillor (1769); governor of Grenada, Tobago and the Grenadines (1775); governorof Madras (1781–5); Privy Councillor (1792); Ambassador to Peking (1792); Governor of the Cape (1796):8, 202, 221 n. a, 252, 530 n. a, 653 n. a, 655 n. a, 754, 769 n.a, 796 n. a
Macaulay, Dr George (c. 1716–66), Scottish physician; husband of Catherine Macaulay, the historian; physician and treasurer of the British Lying-in Hospital at Brownlow Street, London (1752): 740
Macaulay, Mrs Catherine (1731–91), historian; author of the History of England (8 vols., 1763–83); part of the Wilkes circle; correspondent of Mary Wollstone-craft; acquaintance of Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush; not strictly a feminist, behaving instead as if equality between the sexes already existed: 133, 236 n. a, 376, 560, 623
Macaulay, Mrs Kenneth (d. 1799), wife of the below: 463 n. b
Macaulay, Revd Kenneth (1723–79), Church of Scotland minister and local historian; author of The History of St Kilda (1764),